New material of shore bug subfamily Leptosaldinae in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber from northern Myanmar (Heteroptera, Leptopodomorpha)

The shore bug subfamily Leptosaldinae is a relict insect group with only one living species recorded in Ecuador and Colombia, but its palaeo-diversity is relatively high, especially in upper Mesozoic amber biotae. Herein, on the basis of an adult shore bug fossil trapped in a mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber piece from northern Myanmar, we describe a new genus and species Cretaleptus popovi gen. et sp. nov., attributed to Leptosaldinae. The new taxon...